Bibles & sacred texts - facsimiles - Omi

OMI - Old Manuscripts & Incunabula • tel 212/ 758-1946 • fax 593-6186 • www.omifacsimiles.com • immels@earthlink.net Biblical texts, p.12
c.1450 Pasionario púrpura de Fra Angelico.
[Cambridge (MA), Fogg Art Musuem; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van
Beuningen]
Valencia, 2007. 8 x 10 cm. 24 pp + commentary.
This unusual MS—executed as its name implies in purple hues—features illuminations by
master Italian painter Fra Angelico. The facsimile edition reunites parts of the codex now
preserved at two different locations (Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachussetts, &
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam). Fra Angelico, or Beato Angelico, is
considered one of the most refined and spiritual artists of his day. In the art of the miniature
he practiced a style that was particularly linked with the late gothic heading towards the
Renaissance: abstract, luminous and dazzling although greatly restrained internally.
Limited edition of 999 copies.
€ 1400
13th c. Ingeborg-Psalter (Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 9 olm 1695).
[Chantilly, Bibliothèque de Musée Condé, 9, olim 1695]
[3-201-01274-2] Codices Selecti, LXXX. Graz, 1985. 20.4 x 30.4 cm, 2 vols, 400, 218 pp.
The Ingeborg Psalter, a most significant and splenderous MS, was created c.1200 in
northern France. The last decades of the 12th century were a time that achieved a high
flourishing of artistic production in Paris and its surrounding provinces. The richly
decorated Psalter contains the text of 150 psalms; historically this type of MS forms the
preliminary stage to the “Livre d’heures” (Book of Hours) of the Flemish paintings of the
14th and 15th centuries. The psalms and other texts start with distinctive initials, most of
them beautifully decorated. The 51 glittering gold miniatures are especially important
because of their new stylistic development from their Romanesque predecessors and
because they shape the outstanding role in the future Gothic book painting. On 27
miniature pages, which mostly show 2 scenes one above the other, important events from
the lives of Abraham and Moses are represented. The House of Isaiah, stressing the
connection between the Old and New Testament follows and finally the miniatures with
events in the life of Jesus are depicted. Commentary by F. Deuchler. Limited edition of 500
copies bound in leather, with slipcase.
€ 7900
11th c. Echternachter Sakramentar und Antiphonar (Hessische Landes-und
Hochschulbibliothek Darmstadt, Hs. 1946).
[Darmstadt, Hessische Landes- & Hochschulbibliothek, 1946]
[3-201-01166-5] Codices Selecti, LXXIV. Graz, 1982. 17 x 24 cm, 278 pp.
Deluxe full-color facsimile of complete ms, copied and illuminated in Echternach, 1030. St.
Gall-type music notation. Commentary by K. H. Staub, P. Ulveling & F. Unterkircher.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Full leather, with slipcase.
€ 1580